Roel and Bill,
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Our community owes a huge thank you to you both for all you have contributed to Parkes and district, for all the support and encouragement given, for all your reporting of what is now part of our history, and for all the opportunities you have helped create during your long stewardship of the Champion Post.
Reading Tuesday's Champion Post (May 31) I realised that the Parkes High School Weekly Rap page has been going for 26 years!
It's a fun page, reporting to our community, designed and written by students, and has introduced hundreds of students to journalism over this time.
It has won awards, and back in the 90s a survey of people on Clarinda Street showed it was the most read page!
So a big thank you for your support of all schools in Parkes, reporting on all their issues (air conditioning at Parkes High . . . ) and all their achievements – big and small, good and not so good, team and individual – across all areas, academic, sporting, social, debating, drama, etc.
You have followed our students to their future success, happily reporting years later on what they are now doing.
What about how the Champion Post has been right behind Birth to Kindergarten as it has grown into Paint the Town Read!!
I must say a huge thank you for your support of Parkes Hospital, and the long campaign to get various governments to commit to a new hospital.
You have been happy to take every story possible from the hospital, usually with a photo.
You have supported midwives and nurses, taken up issues such as doctor shortages, bed shortages, the linen service, the chemotherapy unit – the list could go on.
The Champion Post has always been right behind groups like Can Assist, and causes such as Walk Against Cancer.
You gave unbelievable support to the one and only Opera at The Dish, raising funds for the McGrath Foundation to support our fantastic McGrath Breast Care Nurse and other McGrath nurses across our great land.
Thank you both, and to your team.
It has been a privilege to call Parkes home while you have been recording the rich tapestry of everyday life – of individuals and families, of ups and downs, of events and happenings big and small, that all of us have been part of.
You have created a great legacy.
With best wishes,
Malcolm Stacey, Parkes.